Goner Posted December 12, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I am getting close to ordering parts for my new DYI system and it occurs to me that if I don't go SLI I could afford to go with a 6 core CPU. I am mostly looking to build a home computer that will also run MW3 and other FPS games and my budget is $2,500. Here is what I am planning to order: -COOLERMASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower - CorsairPro Series HX1050 1050W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready PLUS SILVER Certified -ASUSP8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX -IntelCore i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core -CorsairCAFA70 120mm A70 Dual-Fan -CorsairMemory Vengeance 16 Quad Channel Kit DDR3 1600 MHz 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM -Intel320 Series SSD-SA2CW120G3K5 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC -WesternDigital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache WD1002FAEX -2X EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB -SAMSUNGBlack 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray -MicrosoftWindows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit Also, I could buy (newegg) a 1.5 tb hard drive for $40 less than the 1 tb from newegg. Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsw 8.5 Posted December 12, 2011 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 143 Topic Count: 513 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 17089 Content Per Day: 3.25 Reputation: 42083 Achievement Points: 148592 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 677 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 9 hours ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Share Posted December 12, 2011 With that cooler make sure you have room for your ram ..corsair vengeance has higher heatsinks ..so make sure you have room ..or get the Gskill rip jaw ..if you look at pigdogs post on bench marks you will see the cooler in my cases and his look at the ram ..and you might want to look at the XFX power supplys ..just make sure you stay with a single rail .. and with the i 7 2600k you will have all you need ..i have the 2500k and have no probs with any thing ..16 gig ram 2+260 o/c a70 cooler and xfx 850 pro ..haf 922 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted December 12, 2011 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 296 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4477 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3641 Achievement Points: 36566 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 40 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted December 12, 2011 the 570sc is a ref design, the 580 waterblock will fit go with corsair H100 and cool 2 GPU's missing something.......yes 60" 1080p 240Hz screen and long HDMI 1.4 cable can pick up a good deal on screen/moniter this time of yr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BattlewolF Posted December 12, 2011 Member ID: 2028 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1740 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 545 Achievement Points: 10637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18 Birthday: 03/10/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted December 12, 2011 Nice , for me take the haf x put 2 extra 200mm in it and other cpu cooler like coolermaster v8 i used it max load 47 celcius The rest is fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goner Posted December 13, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 tsw 8.5 With that cooler make sure you have room for your ram ..corsair vengeance has higher heatsinks ..so make sure you have room ..or get the Gskill rip jaw ..if you look at pigdogs post on bench marks you will see the cooler in my cases and his look at the ram ..and you might want to look at the XFX power supplys ..just make sure you stay with a single rail .. and with the i 7 2600k you will have all you need ..i have the 2500k and have no probs with any thing ..16 gig ram 2+260 o/c a70 cooler and xfx 850 pro ..haf 922 Thanks for the heads-up on the cooler/ram conflict. I can't find the pigdog thread though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goner Posted December 13, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 13, 2011 KaptCrunch the 570sc is a ref design, the 580 waterblock will fit go with corsair H100 and cool 2 GPU's missing something.......yes 60" 1080p 240Hz screen and long HDMI 1.4 cable can pick up a good deal on screen/moniter this time of yr Am I going to need to liquid cool the GPUs? I not sure I really need the sc cards anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted December 13, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted December 13, 2011 No need to liquid cool the GPUs. I have that haf x case with 2 x 580GTXs and have had no problems. What I would do, is get the extra top fan. You can see in the picture above, there are two top fan locations. It only comes with one. Also get a CPU closed circuit liquid cooling system. I use the corsair H70, with the fans in a push/pull setup (this means having a fan either side of the radiator. The outside pushing air against the radiator, and the inside fan pulling it away from the rad into the case), and it works like a charm. So have the front, side, and rear fans pulling air in, and the 2 tops fans pushing it out of the case. Remember heat rises, so this is the most efficient set up. NOTE:- If you want to use RAID array, Home Premuim only gives basic raid, you need Pro or above to get all the flavours. Naturally hardware raid is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted December 13, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted December 13, 2011 KaptCrunch the 570sc is a ref design, the 580 waterblock will fit go with corsair H100 and cool 2 GPU's missing something.......yes 60" 1080p 240Hz screen and long HDMI 1.4 cable can pick up a good deal on screen/moniter this time of yr LOL 60" screen, I would get neck ache looking from one side of the screen to the other. Personally, if you are going to be sitting close to the screen, 24" is perfect. Choose iiyama, easily the best make on the market, and great value too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted December 13, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted December 13, 2011 ALSO REMEMBER, never use all your memory slots, better to ramp up each stick and use fewer slots, than the same memory over all your slots. Works much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAH Posted December 13, 2011 Member ID: 1032 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 43 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 614 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 320 Achievement Points: 4179 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/18/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 21, 2022 Birthday: 10/08/1984 Share Posted December 13, 2011 <------jealous and poor. nice system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goner Posted December 14, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Cavey No need to liquid cool the GPUs. I have that haf x case with 2 x 580GTXs and have had no problems. What I would do, is get the extra top fan. You can see in the picture above, there are two top fan locations. It only comes with one. Also get a CPU closed circuit liquid cooling system. I use the corsair H70, with the fans in a push/pull setup (this means having a fan either side of the radiator. The outside pushing air against the radiator, and the inside fan pulling it away from the rad into the case), and it works like a charm. So have the front, side, and rear fans pulling air in, and the 2 tops fans pushing it out of the case. Remember heat rises, so this is the most efficient set up. NOTE:- If you want to use RAID array, Home Premuim only gives basic raid, you need Pro or above to get all the flavours. Naturally hardware raid is better. Do I need to us more cooling than the stock intel setup if I am not going to overclock? A buddy of mine is trying to sell me on the Cool Master V8 air cooler but I am concerned about conflict with the ram heat exchangers and the size of it and a conflict with the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goner Posted December 14, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Cavey ALSO REMEMBER, never use all your memory slots, better to ramp up each stick and use fewer slots, than the same memory over all your slots. Works much better. So you suggest 2 X 8 gig chips or is 2 X 4 enough for my application. By the way...thanks for the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goner Posted December 14, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 What do you think about SSD? I was sold on the intel 320 but I just noticed it is only SATA II. It looks like all of the SATA III SSDs have problems reading the reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareXI Posted December 14, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Goner Do I need to us more cooling than the stock intel setup if I am not going to overclock? A buddy of mine is trying to sell me on the Cool Master V8 air cooler but I am concerned about conflict with the ram heat exchangers and the size of it and a conflict with the fans. if you are sure to never ever oc your cpu the stock cooler is enough to cool it but it is a little noisy like Cavey suggested the Corsair H70 watercooling sys is for sure enought to keep it cool and quite I am using a H100 btw LOL and I love it AND... with the H70 you will not have any conflict with your ram heat exchangers I dont think your listed ram will work with the V8 or many others of the big air coolers getting 8 GB or 16 GB of ram depends on what you do with your sys besides of gaming I have 8 GB but working a lot with video encoding and stuff like that...running out of memory sometimes LOL but even BF3 just needs 4 GB of ram here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goner Posted December 28, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 I just wanted to thank everyone for all of your advice and suggestions. I ordered all my parts from Newegg at 11:59 PM Sunday (and picked it up from their will-call on Tuesday...gotta love Newegg will-call service) and just got it all together today! Here is what I got for total $2,400... -COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower -Corsair Pro Series HX1050 1050W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready PLUS SILVER Certified -ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX -Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core -G.Skill RIP DDR3 1600, 4 X 4 gig -Mushkin Chronos Deluxe SSD-120GB SATA III -2 X EVGA SuperClocked 012-P3-1572-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB -SAMSUNG Black 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray -WD 500 gig Caviar (Black) -Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit Well it's been two years since I played on XI servers so I will be up and running tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattlewolF Posted December 28, 2011 Member ID: 2028 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1740 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 545 Achievement Points: 10637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18 Birthday: 03/10/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted December 28, 2011 When it is ready make picture What cooling is on the cpu and do you have extra 200mm fans for your case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NightmareXI Posted December 28, 2011 Member ID: 68 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 44 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2709 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 132 Achievement Points: 14854 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 20, 2022 Birthday: 04/13/1969 Share Posted December 28, 2011 SkunK|NL When it is ready make picture +1..... we want to enjoy it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Goner Posted December 29, 2011 Member ID: 30 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 17 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 138 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/14/1957 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 I'm just using the standard Intel cpu cooling fan right now, but I need to get something else as the Intel device didn't lock into the motherboard at all 4 corners so i am not sure it is cooling as well as it should...probably an air cooler like the cooler master v8. I am also only using one 200mm in the top but will go with a second if I go liquid cooling like the Corsair H100. Here are the pics. I think I'm pretty much done although I may have to do more once I get a cooler and I will probably add a card reader. Now a monitor...probably a Viewsonic V3D245 or the Planar SA2311W. Sorry I messed up the formating of this message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme Posted December 29, 2011 Member ID: 3095 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 115 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2013 Birthday: 02/14/1963 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Why didn't you get a Z68 chipset mobo? The Asus P8Z68 series ROCKS. I built a system a couple of months ago and used RST with a 64GB SSD. The system is UNREAL fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreme Posted December 29, 2011 Member ID: 3095 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 115 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2013 Birthday: 02/14/1963 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Another tip....make sure you ram is running at 1600. These Asus mobos are very conservative in AUTO mode and you usually have to crank on the RAM to get it humming. Also, the stock Intel cooler is good for 4GHz+ overclocking on the 2600K. The only reason you'd need more is if you're planning on going to the extremes.......which is fun as a hobby, but not very practical for a long-term gaming rig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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